On Feb 20, 5:20 pm, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > On Windows XP, I can run a bash shell inside Microsoft's "dos" > terminal; and, from this bash shell, I can run console > vim.exe. > > I also run the bash shell from inside MSYS-based mintty > http://code.google.com/p/mintty/. However, nothing happens > after issuing the vim.exe command from this setup. I can run > cmd.exe inside mintty; but cannot run vim.exe from here > either. > > Is it possible to run console vim inside mintty?
No. You'll need the MSYS version of vim, which assuming you've got mingw-get you can install with 'mingw-get install msys-vim'. See http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for the reasons. Andy -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
